This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Friday, November 12, 2010

HACLA Rudy Montiel's "get rich scheme" garners unwanted attention

Mayor Antonio Villar (right) with his $400,000+ Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Rudy Montiel (left).

To say that corruption does not exist within the dysfunctional agency known as the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), is to say that Mayor Antonio Villar has been a "transparent and ethical beacon" at 200 Spring Street.

Simply, the state of public housing under the control of HACLA is a legal and dysfunctional trainwreck, with its corrupt toxic fumes polluting the political air at City Hall. But lets make no mistake here, this stench has been around for years.

The HACLA's Public Housing Projects are gang-infested fiefdoms that breed future generations of gang members and foster dependency on the largess of government (ie. WIC, Food Stamps, Welfare, mixed with subsidize, sub-standard housing).

But where I differ with Ron Kaye on his excellent missive regarding Montiel's actions at HACLA, is the premise that Montiel acted alone in crafting this scheme. It is true that Montiel stand to gain financially but who was to "give his final blessings" on what non-profits, would get the contracts to run HACLA' housing domains? One should maybe look on the right of the picture above.

In the Ramona Gardens Projects, the new "Connected Non-Profit Legacy LA" was not only created to revitalize the Hazard Park Armory, but in the minds of community observers, was the "Trojan Horse" that would reinvent the Ramona Gardens Community to meet the needs of USC's future expansion plans.

Many have opine that Ramona Gardens would become the workforce housing location for future employees of USC's planned expansion of its Medical School Complex and the Biotech Corridor Project of the CRA Eastside-Adelante Redevelopment Area. This can be backed up with the past comments from the likes of USC Chief Lobbyist David Galaviz and CRA's Steve Valenzuela, who grew up in Ramona Gardens.

Most would agree that the Ramona Gardens area is in need of reinvention and the Mission of HACLA needs investigated vetting. But the issue of providing for our city's housing dependents and hopefully educating them with the tools to become future homeowners, should not be usurp by questionable legal dealings, that foster more governmental dependency.

The Worksource Sign in the background of that picture makes me want to throw up. Villaraigosa and the public union thugs are diverting federal job training funds to corrupt purposes of enriching the non-profits run by the likes of SEIU and AFL-CIO. The only jobs created by these programs are the do-nothing jobs of the bureaucrats themselves.

WE HAVE A LOT GOING ON WITH THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT THEY WERE CALLED OUT THIS WEEK BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON RUDY'S DISREGARD FOR PEOPLE IN HIS PROJECTS. YOU CAN READ IN THE PAPERS ABOUT THE BUSES OF PEOPLE WHO WENT TO RUDY'S HOME TO GET ATTENTION. THIS IS NOT THE ONLY ISSUES FACING THIS CITY TO DO WITH LAND THIS COUNCIL IS WORKING WITH CITY PLANNING TO REVISE THE ZONING CODE. THIS WILL EFFECT EVERYONE INCLUDING THOUGH'S IN HOUSING TRACTS AND SPECIFIC PLANS. IT'S ALL DONE UNDER EVERYONE'S NOSE. NOW THEY CAN RENAME A DISTRICT TO ALTER WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH LOTS THROUGHOUT LA AND EVEN AVOID EIR'S. GO TO LACITY.ORG. LANEIGHBORS.ORG LOOK AT WHAT THIS COUNCIL IS PASSING WHILE YOU SLEEP. I'LL GIVE YOU A HINT WHO ELSE IS WORKING TO FORCE THIS DEPUTY MAYOR BEUTNER.

I am a resident at the Culver City housing projects, I have been under constant threats by Montiel and his lynch men. Please, please send the FBI to investigate Montiel, the commisionor, and mayor. They have neglected public safety, the have put blacks and latinos against eachother. A young black male was shot in culver city, rudy montiel was fully aware of the dangers this young man was facing, and he ignored it. Please, please, please, would someone save us residents from these organize crime members. All we are asking is for an investaigation, and the truth will set as free.

I am a resident at the Culver City housing projects, I have been under constant threats by Montiel and his lynch men. Please, please send the FBI to investigate Montiel, the commisionor, and mayor. They have neglected public safety, the have put blacks and latinos against eachother. A young black male was shot in culver city, rudy montiel was fully aware of the dangers this young was facing, and he ignored it. Please, please, please, would someone save us residents from these organize crime members. All we are asking is for an investaigation, and the truth will set as free.